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Online Contests and Giveaways are a great way to build reputation for your brand and at the same time scoring leads in form of participants. If your contest goes viral, you can imagine a stream of brand signals and leads coming your way.

Creating a contest and putting a worthy prize / reward behind it is one part of the whole contest. But if you can’t promote your contest, you might not be able to bring in that many participants.

If you’re looking for a way to further promote your contest beyond your current lists and followers, sharing your contest

If you haven’t heard of him before, Neil Patel is one of the most influential people online. He’s co-founder of KISSmetrics, Crazy Egg, Hello Bar, and Forbes says he’s one of the top 10 online marketers. If there’s one person to follow, and learn about marketing strategies and tactics, it’s Neil.

If you aren’t following his blog Quick Sprout then you should head over there after reading this article and subscribe. He shares so much amazing information and tells you exactly how he does it, to the point of it almost being too

When UpViral launched, we changed the market. We added a new way to drive traffic to your site or business using the power of word of mouth in a way that wasn’t possible before.

Since that time thousands of people have started using UpViral to promote their business using the power of viral marketing. Many of our customers have used it to add tens of thousands – and yes, even hundreds of thousands – new email subscribers thanks to the power of our platform.

If you’re a startup, it can be hard to acquire an audience – involving them is even more difficult.

And you are not the only one that’s after them – there are competitors too.

So as a startup, how can you penetrate massive audience with minimal effort in highly competitive landscape?

You work with Influencers.

Influencers are people who have an established credibility and audience and can persuade others by virtue of their trustworthiness and authenticity. Influencers are proven industry leaders and experts that are actively involved in communicating best practices, tips and strategies.

Facebook Lead Ads are the latest offering in the Facebook Advertising Platform that enables all advertisers to easily collect users’ personal information in a way that’s never been possible before.

All people need to do is click on the message, and Facebook will automatically show a pre-filled form. Just one more click and their personal data – such as their name, email address and more – is collected.

When we said UpViral would be the best viral referral marketing platform you could wish for… we meant it. That’s why the whole team is taking massive action every single day to make that happen.

Today I’d like to give you a quick overview of some of the things we’ve added over the last few weeks.

1 – Getting shared by email

We already had all the major social media platforms (so participants can easily share your campaign on social media). We’ve now added an email button as well, making it even easier to share your campaign by email with their friends.

Regardless of how contagious your content is, how they feel after they share or how funny it is… whether something goes truly viral all comes down to one critical formula that you need to understand first.

What does “going viral” mean exactly?

It’s been just over a month since UpViral went live… so it’s about time to send out an update on where things stand.

The first month could be best described as both FUN and HECTIC! With over 2,500 new customers joining a brand new platform there’s one thing to be certain off: you’ll run into all kinds that you didn’t foresee (both good and bad).

The good

The best part is obviously seeing our customers have success with UpViral. Many people have already collected thousands or even tens of thousands of new email subscribers using viral giveaways and contests.